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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Actual Am Any AnyGivenMoment
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Acts Ambition Bad Character
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God is a consuming fire not an ice block. God's personality is fire, His language is fire. When appeared to Moses, He appeared in the form of fire, when He came to rescue Elisha, He came with chariots of flaming fire.

Rescue Fire Came Form
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Am Better I Am I Think
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Alone Come Dream Dreams
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Best Calls Come Enjoyment
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Abyss Black Delving Fascination
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

About Am Any Backed
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Also Democracy Form Worship
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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Art Art Form Deserve Form
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Always His Informed Like
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Dictator Admire Uniformity Obedience
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Stamp Indelibly Mind Mental
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Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Body Present Tremendous Stimulation
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Am Being Enjoy Feet
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Always Been Inner Me
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Stuff Historically Concentrated Universe
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

College Either Government History
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Young Children Concept Death
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Government Proves Dictatorship Transient
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Law Nature Tolerance Consequence
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Conform Does Ideal Reality
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We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

Examine Task God Ego
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Always Arts Believe Everything
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The uncomfortable is a difficult place to be, but also provides a platform to grow if you allow yourself. It's VERY hard, but do your best to see the gain and growth thru the uncomfortable.

Place Uncomfortable Grow Platform
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confused
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Born Conception Evil Form
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you

About Heard Honesty HonestyIs
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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Gratitude Transform Common Thanksgiving
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Along Attitude Benefit Change
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Actor Again Always Form
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

About Any Form I Think
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Artists Dancers Given Interesting
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I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

About Box Excited Hours
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Against Arms Bear Because
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

About Anybody Art Art Form
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Form Go Got Growing
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Acting Angry Concert Drum
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

Art Art Form Because Been
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Man Sees Formed Powers
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Actor Class Community Former
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Actor Depends Effective Gives
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We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick.

We Certainly Want Those
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Tour Dies Junior Years
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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